The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 9Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... face is Paradise , but fenc'd from sin : For God in either eye has plac'd a cherubin . All is your lord's alone ; ev'n absent , he Employs the care of chaste Penelope . For him you waste in tears your widow'd hours , For him your ...
... face is Paradise , but fenc'd from sin : For God in either eye has plac'd a cherubin . All is your lord's alone ; ev'n absent , he Employs the care of chaste Penelope . For him you waste in tears your widow'd hours , For him your ...
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... face kindled like a burning coal : Now cold Despair , succeeding in her stead , To livid paleness turns the glowing red . His blood , scarce liquid , creeps within his veins , Like water which the freezing wind constrains . Then thus he ...
... face kindled like a burning coal : Now cold Despair , succeeding in her stead , To livid paleness turns the glowing red . His blood , scarce liquid , creeps within his veins , Like water which the freezing wind constrains . Then thus he ...
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... face : " False traitor Arcite , traitor to thy blood , Bound by thy sacred oath to seek my good , Now art thou found ... face to face , Approach ; each other from afar they knew , And from afar their hatred chang'd their hue . So stands ...
... face : " False traitor Arcite , traitor to thy blood , Bound by thy sacred oath to seek my good , Now art thou found ... face to face , Approach ; each other from afar they knew , And from afar their hatred chang'd their hue . So stands ...
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... face of things is chang'd , and Athens now , That laugh'd so late , becomes the scene of woe : Matrons and maids , both sexes , every state , With tears lament the knight's untimely fate . Nor greater grief in falling Troy was seen For ...
... face of things is chang'd , and Athens now , That laugh'd so late , becomes the scene of woe : Matrons and maids , both sexes , every state , With tears lament the knight's untimely fate . Nor greater grief in falling Troy was seen For ...
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... face to face . Stiff in denial , as the law appoints , On engines they distend their tortur'd joints : So was confession forc'd , th ' offence was known , And public justice on th ' offenders done . " Here may you see that visions are ...
... face to face . Stiff in denial , as the law appoints , On engines they distend their tortur'd joints : So was confession forc'd , th ' offence was known , And public justice on th ' offenders done . " Here may you see that visions are ...
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Page 491 - What he attempted, he performed ; he is never feeble, and he did not wish to be energetic ; he is never rapid, and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude, nor affected brevity ; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Page 13 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine : but this opinion is not worth confuting...
Page 13 - He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace.
Page 14 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
Page 176 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Page 528 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye : My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Page 9 - Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Page 160 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, ' To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day : Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possess'd, in spite of Fate, are mine.
Page 13 - ... the reader would not find it. For this reason, though he must always be thought a great poet, he is no longer esteemed a good writer; and for ten impressions, which his works have had in so many successive years, yet at present a hundred books are scarcely purchased once a twelvemonth; for, as my last Lord Rochester said, though somewhat profanely, Not being of God, he could not stand.
Page 342 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...